DiversityHireKamikazePilot joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 3 minutes later[^][v]#1,407,642
The first humans that lived in the British isles had black skin, and they’re your ancestors. People in Europe have light skin because Europe gets less sun than Africa. If you don’t get enough sunlight, you get vitamin D deficiency, if you get too much sunlight, you have an increased risk of developing skin cancer. In Africa, there is so much sun, people with darker skin tones are slightly more likely to survive than people with lighter skin tones. In Europe, it’s the other way around. But humans originally evolved in Africa, and there was no evolutionary pressure for white skin to be selected for until after people from Africa already got to Europe. So the claim that the first people in the British isles were black is actually correct.
I’m just saying the idea that Britain was ever of pure white heritage is dumb because all white people are the descendants of black people. It doesn’t matter if that particular person was from Africa or not because 100% of the population of every single European country has ancestors from sub Saharan Africa.
DiversityHireKamikazePilot double-posted this 1 month ago, 4 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,407,650
Of course, there were other species of humans like Neanderthals that lived in Europe that make up about 2% or so of the DNA of populations living outside Africa, but Homo sapiens are a species of primate native to Africa.